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... such a practice. fictionality Chris Kraus Ben Lerner David Foster Wallace 2016 US election Donald Trump The disturbances of 1968, which in several countries lasted into the following years, having nowhere overthrown the existing organization of the society from which it springs apparently...

... noticed that Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, called out Republican nominee, Donald Trump, for living in “an alternate reality” ( Dann ). Such a claim implies that the speaker is living in the primary or conventional reality. This reality is governed by rationality, reliance on quantitative data...

.... Rachele Dini's introduction to her book opens with a quote from the speech President Donald Trump gave at a campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in January 2020. Central to Trump's intervention is the call for efficient household appliances (the dishwasher), whose correct functioning will bring back...

... which the individual is forced to live. Blum broaches this subject with respect to Donald Trump, who is a professed admirer of the self-help author Norman Vincent Peale and his work The Power of Positive Thinking . As Blum describes, “It is Peale whom Trump credits with instilling his ‘positive...

... of Donald Trump. To the rampant claims of “rigged” elections in our time, Puckett responds that elections are always rigged, in the way a ship is rigged. They are set up like a game and necessarily, in some ways, undemocratic in the planning. This is why such charges are inherently plausible. But elections...

... the problem of U.S. exceptionalism. Copyright © 2018 by Novel, Inc. 2018 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. 28 The New York Times article “‘Is It Safe?’ Foreign Students Consider College in Donald Trump's U.S...

... these figures, Michie asks us to remember the scandals surrounding Leona Helmsley—the “Queen of Mean”—in contrast to Donald Trump’s equally tasteless displays of wealth and ruthless enterprise in the 1980s) (xi). Even though Elizabeth Bennet is not actually poor, she needs to occupy this structural...

...Hamish Dalley Jennifer Lawn , Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984–2008: Market Fictions ( Lanham : Lexington , 2015 ), pp. 262 , cloth, $99.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 The shocking victory of Donald Trump in the US...

... in which recent novelists have recorded “the grain of events.” One of the dominant literary strategies for addressing contemporary crises is the speedily written and quickly published novel. Howard Jacobson wrote Pussy: A Novel (2017) in “a fury of disbelief” after Donald Trump's election...

... in particular” (92)? Here the argument rather audaciously links the tweeting habits of former president Donald Trump, whose references to immigrants are said to be detoxing “sexual and racial anxieties” (93), with the Twitterish brevity of writers like Tao Lin. On reflection, Dango's use of “short” doesn't work...

...” of the reader), the boundary between author and reader has been frayed drastically by new digital social media such as Twitter. In the case of Donald Trump's infamous tweets in the middle of the night, the president may well have counted on the waywardness of his messages, in keeping with the nineteenth-century...

.... And in the immediate aftermath of the election of Donald Trump, the question was raised in a particularly panicked register. The question became not only, is this the end of neoliberalism? but also, are we witnessing the rise of authoritarianism? This essay does not answer this question, but it does...

... in Bentham's vein than to a liberalism in Mill's by orienting to action instead of feeling. The courtship scenes in particular evidence this capacity, and in the remainder of this article, I turn to a close reading of one exemplary scene in particular. In the chapter “Donald Bean's Pony,” Phineas...

... of nineteenth-century westward expansion. Echoing Brown, Gornick asserts that “[t]he frontier mentality [that such contemporary Wilders as the Tea Party and President Donald J. Trump] still embody is less likely to shore up a potentially failing democracy than to wreck it altogether.” In the same critical...

... . “What is an Author?” Language, Counter-Memory, Practice . Ed. Donald F Bouchard. Trans. Donald F Bouchard and Sherry Simon. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977 . 113 –38. Fysh , Stephanie . The Work(s) of Samuel Richardson . Newark: U of Delaware P, 1997 . Gikandi , Simon . Maps...

..., typically trumps all others. Thus Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible is usually seen as an “American” text, James Bald- win’s Giovanni’s Room is read as African American, and Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s L’Av e nt ure ambiguë as Senegalese, though the first book is set in the Congo and much...

... Donald Trump, overturning Roe vs. Wade, and stonewalling Joe Biden's ambitious economic legislation demonstrates the degree to which collective action still works, collective action that—notably—exploits loopholes within the legal system rather than opposing that system altogether. The left may...

... Critique . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 2004 . Foucault Michel . Language, Counter-Memory, Practice . Trans. Bouchard Donald F. and Simon Sherry . Ithaca, NY : Cornell UP , 1977 . Fraiman Susan . Extreme Domesticity . New York : Columbia UP , 2017...

... Review of Canadian Studies/Canadian Review of American Studies 26 ( 1996 ): 469 –80. Dick , Bruce , and Amritjit Singh, eds. Conversations with Ishmael Reed . Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995 . Donald , David Herbert . Lincoln . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996...

... discussion of the relation between the aesthetic and the economic in relation to Wharton and Donald Trump, see Elaine Showalter. For more on the general eclecticism of linking James, Wharton, and Adams, see Paul Bové. 9 For an excellent discussion of the figure of the American manager, see...